Cage & Mirror Publishing
Books by Jeremy McEntire
The same structural thinking applied across different domains.
The Cage and the Mirror
How to Make Rigid Organizations Resilient Again
Organizations face an inescapable problem: the very formalization that enables coordination at scale creates blind spots that well-meaning people cannot perceive from inside. This book explains the physics and what you can do about it.
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The Key and the Current
Coming SoonThe Science of Why Systems Fail the Same Way at Every Scale
A companion to The Cage and the Mirror. Every system that coordinates — code, teams, companies, AI — compresses information to function. That compression creates a gap between what the system knows about itself and what is actually true. A quiet current fills that gap. This book identifies the single generating rule behind the pattern and the specific configurations that stop it.
Introduction to Applied Synthesis
Foundations of Integrative Reasoning — Third Edition
A rigorous course in motivated perception — the systematic ways human reasoning becomes captured by forces we don't perceive, causing us to miss critical insights until hindsight makes the errors obvious. Fourteen domains where perception fails, each posed as a problem without a clean solution.
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Beyond Code
Coming SoonContext, Constraints, and the New Craft of Software
Software engineering is not code. It is the discipline of building systems under constraints that the code cannot express. This book examines what changes when you stop treating programming as the point.
Privacy
The Architecture of Forgetting
The web was not designed for permanence. This book examines the cryptographic and architectural foundations of a privacy-preserving internet — anonymous identity, blind databases, and systems designed to forget.
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